From: "Gary D Chance"
To: "Jean Seaton"; "Gavin Freeguard"
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 8:55 PM
Subject: I first learned about the Orwell prize today when the short list was announced and had to smile. George Orwell was right.
No one but no one is writing about what I've been reporting for 11.5+ years of which over eight years have been public in various ways (see links below).
You have never considered awarding the Orwell Prize to someone like me who has been the target/victim of the most advanced surveillance technology that goes way beyond "1984" with my writing about it delineating the abolition of democracy and all its institutions which has occurred in my direct experience since mid-August 1998.
The essence of what I report is subjected to the Orwellian abuse described in "1984" but carried so far by this technology that no one wants to accept its reality which no one wanted to do originally about "1984," yet it exists far more than George Orwell could ever have imagined. No one writes about it at all.
"Director of the prize, Jean Seaton, said: "Although moaning about the decline of journalism has become something of a national and international cliché, these acutely written, well-evidenced, careful bits of contemporary journalism show, in fact, it is in fine form." "
Someone like myself subjected to the most totally invasive surveillance technology ever known who tries to write about it will produce fractured and fragmented snippets of what it is and what it's doing. Therein lies the essence and truth of what I report. Form matches content. It rings of truth and will not be nice, neat, tidy and chock-a-block with heaps of precise evidence.
It's like trying the describe Higg's bosons, dark matter and dark energy by its impact on oneself and the environment. I've only just begun writing about this although I've got over a decade of daily, continuous notes.
My public writing began in November 2001 with a web site and has continued in the various links noted below. This is what the real George Orwell meant when he was addressing political writing taken to an art form. The art reflects its reality because it is a part of it whatever that reality might be.
Your prize will always be deficient until you begin to consider those of us who are writing about the reality of what George Orwell fictionalised. It's a Coleridge/Wordsworth kind of problem where the fantasy is real and reality is fantasy.
Will you get to the reality of today's Orwellian society through someone writing about it as it really exists?
Gary
http://www.garydchance.com
http://garydchance.tripod.com/surveillance
http://garydchance.bravejournal.com
http://garydchance-gary.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/garydchance
http://www.myspace.com/garydchance
http://twitter.com/garydchance
